City Diaries
Bruno Bernard 2024
(english)
"City Diaries" is a refection on our city lives, a daily imaginary journey that invites us to
introspection. Te world of sound that surrounds us is experienced in a unique way by
each and every one of us, yet we all share it.
Each stroll is unique, each moment unique.
It's up to us to make these situations our own, to build our own dream cosmology.
Considering the creative power of what surrounds us as a tool for inner construction, as
poetry, is a response to our materialistic lives and can help us better apprehend the
modern world.
True to Gaston Bachelard, the aim here is to give free rein to daydreaming, while at the
same time giving full artistic expression to the noise of our times, an essential concept
developed by Luigi Russolo.
City Diaries was composed from sounds collected at night in my city (Chalon sur
Saône), which gave rise to an imaginary vocabulary for this acousmatic piece.
Our sound context is a refection of our times, and it's up to us to seize it and, like
modern alchemists, appropriate one of the last things that is free - noise - and transform
it into a work of art. Fortunately, it's one of the last things we have free access to.
Binaural format 24B/48Khz
(français)
« City Diaries » est une réfexion autour de nos vies citadines, un parcours imaginaire
quotidien qui nous invite à l'introspection. L'univers sonore qui nous entoure, à la fois
ressenti de manière unique par chacun d'entre nous, nous est pourtant commun, nous
l'avons en partage.
Chaque déambulation est singulière, chaque moment est unique.
C'est à nous de nous approprier ces situations afn de construire une cosmologie onirique
qui nous soit propre.
Envisager la puissance créative de ce qui nous entoure comme un outil de construction
intérieure, une poésie, est une réponse à nos vies matérialistes et peut nous aider à mieux
appréhender le monde moderne.
Fidèle à Gaston Bachelard, il s'agit ici de laisser libre cours à la rêverie et en même temps
donner toute son importance artistique au bruit de notre époque, concept essentiel
développé par Luigi Russolo.
City Diaries a été composé à partir de sons collectés de nuit dans ma ville (Chalon sur
Saône) qui ont donné naissance à un vocabulaire imaginaire permettant de construire
cette pièce acousmatique.
Notre contexte sonore est le refet de notre époque, à nous de nous en emparer pour, tels
des alchimistes modernes, s'approprier une des dernières choses qui soit gratuite -le
bruit- et le transformer en oeuvre artistique. C'est heureusement une des dernière chose
qui soit nous accessible librement.
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3.Walking

Rerelease of the 2016 legendary album and collaboration project by Cybernetika & Xenofish, Cryomatter.

Full mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qlio0WBGF0
Artists: @cryomatter @xenofish @cybernetika
Download this track: https://hypeddit.com/vm1ulj
Support: https://synapticgrid.bandcamp.com/album/cryomatter-cryomatter

Cryomatter - Azure Particles [Free Download]

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure, relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - MANIFESTATION

Never Understand

A recent guitar session brought me back to a riff I wrote a long time ago. With a midi plugged in, this demo emerges.

Cacophone Instrumental [ORIGINAL]

Rails to tomorrow

opening my travel bag
a book of hundreds notes
I left the wooden floor 
alone in my room 

opening the shutters
minor chords and cut of beats
went to all doors 
over the institutions floor

I lost my way 
in a dark spring fog
with goodbye tears
I took a seat

and we talked about
all fears and darkness
with a new map 
I started again

a drink with friends
a date at the river
a kiss at night
wishes and disappointments

on TV-screen 
and LED
I took the train
for a two hour ride

a cave to hide
when she said goodbye
the rhythm was still 
there in my heart

six people on a field
a horse in the woods
a dance in the dunes 
the luck to have you

applause and congrats
a film nobody sees
with the steering wheel
through weeks of bad sleep

I really don't know
if it was right or wrong 
 all can I say
it came from my heart
and now I'm here 
in front of the mic
a warm light 
falls through the window

I shouldn't fear 
the coming things 
the good or bad 
the bright or dark

I can‘t ask this train to stop, stop
I can‘t ask this train to stop, stop

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Rails To Tomorrow

This orchestral piece was inspired by the lyrics @JanineLevinson provided for  "AND SO" (https://soundcloud.com/phil-Mcwalter/and-So). This piece portrays the ensuing uneasy wedding reception. 

I composed and recorded it using Spitfire Audio's 'BBC Symphony Orchestra' and Native Instrument's 'Berlin Concert Grand Piano' samples in Logic Pro X. Each instrument played line by line on keyboard.

VIDEO: An excerpt has been entered into the Spitfire Audio 'Bridgerton Score' competition: https://youtu.be/i3s1qkrN8DU

(MWV 317)

Among the Missing

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